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With the unfortunate and untimely death of Harold Ramis and the unwillingness of Bill Murray, it is inevitable that a “Ghostbusters” reboot is on the horizon and not a second sequel. But, there’s still room to please both mediums.

I’ve always argued the case that a reboot and sequel can exist within the same movie. A few recent examples: “Scream 4”, “Texas Chainsaw 3D” and “Evil Dead”. The same could work for a third “Ghostbusters” film as well. “Scream 4” made the cut because if you were to remove the original trio from the film, it still works as a standalone movie.

It has been known that a “Ghostbusters III” would deal with a passing-of-the-torch scenario. This is still very much a possibility. Only now the film could just hit the ground running with a new fleet of Ghostbusters already on the job – but struggling, albeit. Through background imagery, a quick montage or even a cameo or two it could be explained how this new fleet was recruited.

Dane DeHaan, who is playing Harry Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 just released this all-new photo of himself as the Green Goblin in the upcoming sequel. We're a long way removed from the Dafoe green helmet days.#wokeuplikethispic.twitter.com/9ITTQBmL5F
— Dane DeHaan (@danedehaan) March 26, 2014

Joy Ride 3: Road Kill will be making its DVD and Bluray debut on June 17 and Digital HD on June 3. Here's a snippet of the official release courtesy of Moviehole.
Rusty Nail, the vengeful trucker with a penchant for pain, slams terror into overdrive in this all-new UNRATED chapter of Joy Ride! Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment takes road rage to an all new level with JOY RIDE 3: ROAD KILL, arriving on Digital HD June 3 and on Blu-ray & DVD June 17. This third hellish installment in the bloody series finds director Declan O’Brien (Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings, Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines) in the driver’s seat for another deadly detour.

The nightmare begins when a group of young street racers take a desolate shortcut on their way to the Road Rally 1000. But a chance encounter with Rusty soon turns deadly as he stalks, taunts, and tortures his next victims with deranged delight. It’s a full-throttle, pedal-to-the-metal chill ride packed with killer twists and turns!

Warner Bros. has tapped Chris McKay to direct Lego Movie 2 from a script by Jared Stern and Michelle Morgan.
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has set Chris McKay to direct its sequel to The LEGO Movie, the film that opened last month and has so far turned in a worldwide gross of $361 million. McKay was animation co-director on the first film that was made under the direction of Phil Lord & Chris Miller. That duo is producing, and Michelle Morgan & Jared Stern are writing a treatment for the next installment. Warner Animation Group is steering the franchise. They are still working all this out, but this will be straight sequel, even though the studio is contemplating a spinoff film that broadens the LEGO empire by focusing on the character Ninjago.
Source: Deadline

Hey TCM fans...or horror fans in general -- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is getting a nifty 4K remastering for the 40th Anniversary that will debut at this year's SXSW.
MPI/Dark Sky Films will be releasing a restored version Tobe Hooper’s 1974 “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” in celebration of the film’s 40th anniversary.

The South by Southwest Film Festival will unveil the restoration Monday at the Topfer Theatre in Austin, Texas, at 9:30 p.m. The new version of the film will be released in theaters this summer with a new 4K transfer from the original 16 mm prints.
Source: Variety

The official teaser trailer for Transformers: Age of Extinction has been released. We got a quick look at the film during the Super Bowl, but here is our "official" look -- so go ahead and have a looksie...

Some of the details of the Terminator: Genesis plot have been revealed, sort of. The thing about any time travel scenario is that you inevitably have to deal with multiple timelines should a singular event change the course of history. And that appears to be exactly what Genesis is addressing.
So let’s look at what we know about the new “Terminator” movie – now officially called “Terminator Genesis” (I’ve had that confirmed, too) – which is about to get underway in Atlanta and New Orleans. : It’s cue out in 2015. It’s going out through Paramount. Alan Taylor, of “Thor : The Dark World”, is directing. Arnold Schwarzenegger is starring, reprising his ‘Terminator’ role, alongside Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor, Jason Clarke as John Connor, and Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese. And though it’s not a remake, nor will it brush over the events of the previous movies, the film is described as a fresh ‘reboot – just like JJ Abrams’ “Star Trek” (2009) was, with Schwarzenegger’s title character the …

After years of speculation, we are finally getting a new Matrix trilogy. Albeit, it'll be a prequel series this time around -- one that will have no ties to The Animatrix (which I loved, by the way).
We’ve been told that the Wachowski’s have already started the writing process with early treatments and outlines already turned into the studio. No word if they will want to direct but my money says “Claro que Si!”.
Will we get more Neo? Pre-Matrix? So many questions.